Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Jody and the Flutter-Mill
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.846
Research Number: NCW: 846
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1950; Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Austin
Exhibition HistoryFitchburg, MA, 1940; probably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 27
References
"American Front," Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel, Feb. 6, 1940, p. 6; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1271, p. 573
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
At least eight of Wyeth's paintings for The Yearling, including this one, were used as models for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1946 movie adaptation of the book. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings felt that "the most effective shots in the film were exact reproductions of (Wyeth's) paintings." (Time Magazine, vol. XLIX, no. 6 (Feb. 10, 1947), p. 12)
At least eight of Wyeth's paintings for The Yearling, including this one, were used as models for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1946 movie adaptation of the book. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings felt that "the most effective shots in the film were exact reproductions of (Wyeth's) paintings." (Time Magazine, vol. XLIX, no. 6 (Feb. 10, 1947), p. 12)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 01/2001